The cops are indeed the ones with authority here. With authority comes responsibility. I think they should be responsible to have meetings with community leaders and make sure everyone knows what behavior is okay, what behavior is not. The cops could make inroads quite easily in my opinion. The same cops that are the supposed enemies of the community are still the ones that are called when they need protection.This is where the leadership thing comes into play. If I were governor, I would push for most communities to have meetings, not to gripe at each other, but to explain their procedures and why they do things the way they do and to listen to the community leaders about their concerns, etc. I think this would be a great step in building back some confidence.The road we are on now ends in a place I don't think we want to go.

Sure it is, most posts to most threads are on the edges of the argument. That is what keeps em goingYou think the gung ho cop knew she was depressed when he arrested her? Would any cop, good or bad, know that? I asked early on, and nobody even replied, I suppose it was not inflammatory enough, if there were protocols in place for monitoring a jailed person once they knew that they had attempted suicide before.

Yes, you can question the arrest. Looks like the guy was way too gung ho. Not many people would say that it should not be looked into.But, you can't blame the lady hanging herself on the over zealous cop. You could just as easily say, hey, if she hadn't made that trip or if her friends had only bailed her out a couple days before. All the "what iffing" does not solve the issue, but does get us toward a 17th page

I was being serious. I would not however have anyone in DC address this. Obama, Hillary, Cruz, Huckabee, etc would just politicize this for votes.

No, the real leadership would be in county Sheriffs Depts and City Cheifs meeting with church and civic leaders. Law enforcement and citizens having sessions where they go over what they expect from each other. Governors would be as high as I would go and then it is just to direct each county seat to set up meetings.

True, a dangerous job, but I fear the edginess and lack of trust are gonna further exacerbate the issues.This would be a good time for leadership in the country to bring the two together, or at least that is what I think

You seem to remember things like you want them, whether they happened or not. You are the same adolescent that said the same thing about all the racist things I said in the Trayvon threads and it turned out that you were full of crap, as usual. As far as calling them pigs, check with Mr Cantrell. "people remember"

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/story/29688637/memphis-police-officer-shot-and-killed-during-a-traffic-stopLots of you won't care that this happened because it will serve no political point for you, and, some will be happy that another pig got what was coming to him and others will want to just pull cops away from areas and let people fend for themselves.But, this happening, in my opinion, will only serve to make traffic stops even more contentious. Every time a cop is killed like this, every captain warns his guys to take no chances and to be vigilant. How that plays out is not always perfect. But losing their 3rd cop in 4 years on this particular force is going to have an effectThis obviously does not give cops license to do something illegal, but they are not operating in a vacuum. When they come up on a stop and are nervous, for whatever reason, and, the people in the cars decide they are gonna be social, disrespect experiments, then..., well it is just not gonna work well. These are the recipes for trouble. An untrusting public and a suspicious police force. Most police forces have decent people and most of the public are not suspects in anything. But, the pulling apart by the public and police is gonna get worse if the attitudes of both cannot change. How do you achieve a coming toward each other?I know this normally just gets both sides to axe grinding, but solutions and ideas might be a better use of time